VOL. I.
Sing Low Lullaby.
Night is coming, baby dear,
Darkling shadows drawing neap
Mother holds you tight and warm,
Mother’s arms sre baby’s charm. .
Strong and tender lull to sleep
As the shadows closer creep,
Sing low lullaby.
Now, as back and forth we go,
Rocking, rocking, to and fro,
Baby’s lids go up and down,
Soon she’ll be in Sleepy town.
Soft and still on mother’s breast,
Sweet, my baby rest, rest!
Sing low lullaby.
Now the fringe is half-way down
Ora eyes so bright and browu,
Spots of black and flecks of white,
Now a gleam of yellow light.
All the world’s in baby’s eyes,
Mother looks and looks, and sighs,
Sings low lullaby.
Deeply down in baby’s eyes*
Again she looks, looks and sighs,
She sees a sad face mirrored there.
A face that should be bright and fair
Pictured in so clear a lake,
Smile 1 smile! for baby’s sake
Sing low lullaby. v \
Only a little crescent light \
Under eyes just now so bright,
Mother takes one little peep
And finds baby fast asleep.
Soon through sleep smiles will gleam,
Angels come in baby's dream.
Sing low lullaby.
Now their wings are rustling near,
Mother shuts her eyes to hear,
And her iids go up and down,
Mother’s going to Sleepy town
And the angels standing by
Will sing for her a lullaby.
Sing low lullaby.
— [Bettie Garland in Atlanta Constitution.
MABEL’S HUSBAND.
“Of course, I shall never dare to
speak auother word to her!” said Rob¬
ert Dale.
“But why not? Only tell me why
not!” cried out little Florrie, climbing
up the beams of the barn loft, so that
her head should be just on a level with
tliat, of her tall brother, and clasping
him around the neck with both arms.
Robert was a tall, handsome young
athlete, at that moment busy in mend¬
ing one of the cogs of a steam-plow
with deft and ready touch.
His dark browu hair hung in heavy
masses over his broad forehead; his
hazel eyes were full of latent fire, and
there was a world of character and
resolve in his mouth and chin, One
might easily excuse Florrie Dale for
being proud of such a brother.
“Don’t you see, Florrie?” said the
young giant, gently putting away the
hands that interfered with the delicate
screw he held. “I never asked her to
be my wife while she was the poor
and dependent school-teacher here.
How can I have the face to do it now
that she has inherited a fortune?”
Florrie balanced herself on the
beam, her dimpled face looking out
from its frame work of hay; a speck¬
led lien came cackling from its nest
in the fragrant bay, and haif a dozen
captive swallows flew back and forth
in the peak of the barn overhead.
' “But you were just going to ask
her, Bob, you know you were!”
“Ah, but how is she to know it?”
“4Vliy, by instinct, of course,” de¬
cided Florrie.
Dale shook liis head, with rather a
sad smile.
“No, my little girl,” said he, “I do
not choose to be mistaken for one of
the great army of fortune-hunters-
I’ve lost my opportunity, and there’s
an end of it. It’s my own fault.”
.
Florric burst into tears.
“Oh, Bob!” said slie.
Robert Dale stroked down her sun¬
shiny bead, not without a sparkle of
moisture in Lis own eyes, but he
smiled a wan smile, nevertheless.
“I’ve often read that pride was a
sin,” sobbed Florrie, “but I never
comprehended it before. Oli, Bob, I
could almost hate you, if 1 didn’t love
yon so dearly!”
And Florrie scrambled down from
her perch on the beam, and ran away,
with both hands clasped over her face.
Dale looked after her.
“Poor little darling!” he said to
himself. “It is but a scratch on the
surface of her tender young heart!
On mine it is a deep wound, seared in
with red-hot iron, God help me!”
It was one of those romances which
occur in real life oftener than one has
any idea of. Mabel Wynne was a
pretty young 6chool-teacber in Ab¬
bott’s District, whose life of poverty
had suddenly been turned into riches
by the bequest of a distant and nearly-
forgotten relative. To Mabel herself
it 6eemed like a golden dream, How
often she had built castles in the air,
whereof the foundation was “If I were
rich!” Aud now tne dream had come
true; the pinnacles of the air-castles
■were actually shining athwart the sky
of her life, heretofore 6uch a cold and
gray expanse!
“And now,” said Mabel to herself,
“I can fulfill all my heart's desires!”
She took counsel with no cne, unless
n ow ar.d then an hour with the gray-
haired old lawyer might come under
THE ENTERPRISE r
that head; she simply did as sho
pleased.
“Hev’ ye seen the new house that
Mabel Wynne is buildin’?” said one
neighbor to another. “It’s a veg’lar
Aladdin’s castle! With the trees all
cut away from the lake, and new
drives made through the woods, and
heathen statters set up here and there,
and a row o’ glass houses to raise
furriu plants and ripen grapes and
peaches before their time.”
“I don’t approve of no sucli notions,’
solemnly answered the other. “To my
mind, it’s a clear settin’ o’ Providence
at defiance. Grapes in March! And
orange-trees a flowerin’ in this ’ere
climate, with the snow on the ground!
Mark my works, there won’t no good
come'of it!”
It was a bright September evening
when Mabel Wynne stopped at the old
Dale farm-house.
Florrie rushed to meet her, and
greeted her with lings and kisses innu¬
merable.
“Dear, dear May!” she said. “Why
haven’t you been to see us before?”
“Why haven’t you been to see me?”
retorted Mabel, with the piquant, off¬
hand manner which was one of her
greatest charms. “That is the ques¬
tion, I should think.”
Florrie’s eyelashes drooped; in¬
stinctively she turned to her brother.
Robert advanced to her rescue, of¬
fering Miss Wynne his hand, with an
excellent imitation of composure.
“Because, Mabel, your time has
been so much occupied,” said lie. “i
told Florrie that tilings were changed—
that you could hardly be expected to
have leisure to devote to her silly prat¬
tle.”
“How did you know that tiling
were changed?” cried Mabel, with a
resentful flash in her violet-blue eyes.
“My own common sense told mo
so.”
“Was that the reason that you
haven’t been to see me?”
“One of the reasons.”
“Oh!” said Mabel, with an indes¬
cribable intonation of voice, and fixing
her eyes upon bis with a sudden,
questioning glance, which he was but
too thankful to evade by looking an¬
other way. “That was all that you
cared for your old friend, cli?”
“If 1 could be of any real practical
use to my old friend—”
“You can,” briefly interrupted Miss
Wynne.
“Tell me how, and I shall be at your
service.”
Florrie put her arms around her
friend’s neck, whispering softly:
“This is like old times, May!”
“And I shall want Florrie, too,”
added Mabel, “to help eke out my
own inexperience. A man’s judgment
and a woman’s taste! May I count on
both of you?”
“On me, certainly,” said Robert
Dale.
“You might know that I would be
ready to help you!” cried Florrie, al¬
most inclined to be aggrieved.
“Then, will you both come up to
‘The Glon’ tomorrow at 10 o’clock?”
“That’s tho name of your new fairy
palace?”
“Didn’t you know it?”
Robert smiled.
“I don’t ask many questions,” said
he.
“Yes. It is called ‘The Glen,’ ” she
answered.
Mabel Wynne stayed, and spent the
evening at the Dale farm-house. She
and Florrie sang sweet part-songs to
the accompaniment of Robert’s violin;
they talked of old times and new; and
when at last Robert returned from
seeing Mabel home, Florrie clapped
her hands gleefully.
“Oh, Bob,” she cried, “isn’t it nice
to have Mabel here once more ?”
And Bob’s smile did her heart good.
The next day, however, things as¬
sumed a new aspect. Robert and
Florrie walked up through the woods
to the beautifull new house, whose
stained-glass casements commanded so
rare a view of hillside, woodland, and
distant, winding river, Al a be 1 was
s anding on tho portico.
“Now come in,” she cried, radiant-
iy- “Walk through all the rooms
with me. Here is the library—I want
Robert s idea about fitting that up—
and here are the drawing rooms.
Florrie and 1 must decide about those;
for, to tell you the truth”—and she
collored pinker than the heart of a
roge —“i am going to be married!”
Florrie started back, with a little
exclamation; Robert stood calm and
quiet as one of the marble statues in
the vestibule.
“Married!” Florrie cried—“and
not to confide in me! Oh, Alay!
“Tell me,” said Alabel—“shall we
furnish the drawing-rooms in blue and
silver, or pink and gold ? And shall
rooms be the south oops, or the
my the river ?
suit looking out over
Bob must have tlie vestibules furnish-
CARNESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 4.1890.
ed to suit a man's taste. I shouldn't
like to have my husband criticiso them
when he comes. Will you do this
forme. Bob, because of our old friend,
ship? Oh, don’t look so solemnly at
me! I know I am asking n great deal,
but I thought I could depend on you.”
“You can,” he answered, quietly.
“Come out and look at the new sun¬
dial on the south lawn, added Mabel.
Florric has run up stairs to see the
river from the observatory. We won’t
wait for her; because, Bob, I want to
tell you a secret.”
“Would not your husband be the
proper person to confide in, May?” he
asked.
“ In this ease, no, Bob!” she cried.
“Listen to me. I love this man with
all my soul—this husband that is to be
—and he loves me.”
“Naturally,” observed Robert, set¬
ting his teeth.
“But he docs not dare to toll me so
He thinks, don’t you see, that I am an
heiress. Well, so I am; but I am a
woman, nevertheless, and I love him!
Is my wretched money to part us! If
so, I will fling it all into the ocean,
and begin life anew as a beggar-girl.
Now, Bob, what shall I do? It is for
this that I have sent for you to conto
here. Answer me, quickly!”
“Tell him all,” said Robert, huskily.
“For God’s sake do not break his heart
for so trifling a cause as this!”
Mabel’s cheeks crimsoned, her eyes
fell to the ground.
“I have told him,” she murmured,
“within this hour. Oh, Robert, Rob¬
ert! have I said too much?”
“My May, my own darling I” cried
Dale. ‘ ‘And to think that this miser¬
able, false pride of mine failed to
measure the nobility of your virtue!”
When Florrie caino down from the
observatory to tho marble sun-dial,
where the minutes were measured ofl
by sunshine—ah, how appropriate it
seemed just now, this division of time!
—Bob and Mabel were sitting side by
side on a rustic bench, and there was
something in their faces that betrayed
the truth at once.
Mabel’s lips dimpled into a soft, shy
smile. Bob drew Florrie toward him
at once.
“You have discovered our secret,
little sister,” said he.
Florrie uttered a cry of joy.
“Oil, May 1” sho said, “is it Bob?”
“Could it be any one else than Bob?’’
Mabel whispered, her sweet eyes full
of loving light.
And then Florrie, the mendacious
little gipsy, declared that she had
known it all along. It wasn’t a bit of
a surprise to her. Everybody had
seen it hut Bob; and Love was pro¬
verbially blind.—[Saturday Night.
An Interesting Surg’cal Operation.
An interesting surgical operation
has been performed in this city. It
baa saved a young woman’s life, and
has also made her a great curiosity.
The patient is under 20 years of age,
and for some time has gradually been
losing power to swallow her food.
Finally, she could not even swallow
her saliva. It was seen that some¬
thing must be done or she would die
of starvation. A hole was cut into
her stomach and a tube inserted. For
months this was tlie only means by
which nourishment could be given to
her. Food would be chopped up and
placed in the tube and then washed
down with water. In the meantime
another operation was performed,
which reopened the natural passage
from the mouth to the stomach. This
passage, through some strange freak
of nature, had grown together. Care¬
ful nursing has since made it possible
for the patient to take food through
her mouth once more. The tube in
her stomach still remains, and it is un¬
derstood that some museum manager
has been trying to secure the woman
to place her on exhibition.—[Buffalo
Express.
Fine Toy Houses.
This business of building doll or toy
houses precisely like real dwellings is
quite new to me. The first one I ever
saw is on a gentleman’s grounds in
Asbury Fark, and is large enough for
a child of six years old to entertain a
couple of playmates in. The finest
one on the Jersey coast is that built
by Mr. Norman L. Munro for his
children, behind his own house in his
new resort back of John Hoey’s gar¬
ish settlement, Mr. Munro’s country
house is a stately and beautiful one,
and tlie little toy house is an exact im¬
itation of it, tower, bay windows,
porches, and all, though it covers only
the ground space of a tolerable dining¬
room—about twelve by fourteen feet.
It is ten feet high, and has two stories
each five feet from floor to ceiling. It
is carpeted, nicely furnished and com¬
pletely appointed in every respect.
The Hon. John Wanamaker has a still
larger and more elegant toy house for
his little girls at his country seat.—
fCbatter. i
LUNGS OF CONGRESS.
IIOW THE HOUSE IS SUPPLIED
WITH TEMPERED AIR.
It is Hard to Suit the Wants of All tho
Members.
The lung power of congress counts
for something in legislation. Uncle
Sam spends a deal of monoy to keep
the organs of respiration in order for
Lis statesmen. But even with an art¬
ificial breathing apparatus it is not al¬
ways easy to satisfy tho men who
make up congress. Tho air is pumped
into their lungs too fast or too slow;
they aro given too much or too little;
it is too hot or too cole]; there is al¬
ways something to complain of, while
ordinary mortals are content to do
their own breathing!
The two mighty lungs of Congress
are situated down in the lowest bowels
of the Capitol. They are run by steam
and draw air through towers fifty feet
high from a duct two or three hundred
yards away. The snows of winter,
the balmy air of spring and the sultry
summer air are breathed through these
mighty lungs with the changing sea¬
sons. The first swallow, who does not
make spring, is sucked into the groat
funnel if lie flies too close to its top,
and lie might find himself suddenly
blown into the halls of Congress if
there were not screens to check his
course. Many chimney swallows se¬
lecting this high tower as a suitable
place to build their nests, have circled
around the opening and been drawn to
their death. Sparrows, black birds,
robbins, larks, have been breathed into
the Capitol though they have never
gone so far as to lie pumped into the
lungs of the statesmen.
Only air, pure air, heated, moistened
and prepared for breathing purposes,
is forced into their lungs. Two or
three men in tho engine rooms on
either side of the Capitol watch the
temperature and respiration of Con¬
gress. The aim is to give every man
in tho hall and the women and children
in the galleries each 47 cubic feet of
air in a minute, and to keep their
temperature uniformly at 71. Usually
about 38,200 cubic feet of air is
pumped into the Hou-e of Representa¬
tives each minute. Till air comes in
through a clean whitewashed duct, is
run over a little pool of fresh water,
and in cold weather is run through
coils of steam pipes to give it the
proper temperature. An entire fresh
supply of air is put through the house
every seven minutes ordinarily, and
sometimes it is all changed in four
minutes.
An incubator does not have to he
watched with greater cave than has to
be bestowed upon the bouse by the
pure air man. At his right is an elec¬
tric thermometer, which conveys to
him in the under-ground depths a cor¬
rect record of the temperature in the
hall of the house; at his left is a gauge
which tells him how much fresh air
the statesmen have to breath; and near
him is an automatic damper, which
turns oft’ the heat when it gets too great.
It is not an easy thing to send air
into the House that will suit everyone.
Some of the hot-blooded men want a
very low temperature and a constant
draught blowing about their ankles.
Others will sit in a toasting heat with
their coat collars turned up, and will
complain of a breath of air coming
through the ventilators, It is found
by averaging all complaints that a
temperature of 71 degrees, with 38,-
200 cubic feet of air a minute, is most
satisfactory.— [Commercial Advertiser.
A Herd of Cattle on Fire.
George Zimmer, a farmer living at
Maysville, Ind., was told by a neigh¬
bor to rub h:s cows with kerosene, as
that would exterminate tho vermin
with which they were infested. Zim¬
mer did so, applying the kerosene
very freely until the cows were
thoroughly saturated with tlie oil.
Shortly afterward be branded one of
them and when he touched the animal
with the red hot branding iron the
kerosene took fire and in an instant
the cow was enveloped in flames. A
stampede followed. The burning cow
mingled with the rest of the herd
until eight of the animals were ablaze.
They rushed into a barn setting fire to
that also. A hay stack was next con¬
sumed. The animals soon dropped
dead. The barn was saved after Air.
Zimmer had been quite severely burned
in an attempt to extinguish the flames.
The vermin were exterminated with
tlie cows.— [Chicago News.
Contempt of Court.
“You are fined $10,” cried the fair
girl as the old gentleman poked his
head in the room where she was enter¬
taining her best beau.
“What for?” inquired pater,
“Contempt of court, of course.”
Exterminating the Bison.
As the Indians hunted them, the race
of bison would probably have lasted
forever, writes Dr. Carver, but about
1866 tin- white men turned their atten¬
tion to tho shaggy monstors of the
plains. Large eastern firms organized
parties, and paid the shooter $2.50 for
each bison where he lay dead on tho
plains. Very soon afterwards I went
to southern Nebraska, and became a
professional hunter. The bison con¬
sisted of two large divisions, the one
living in the south and tiio other in tho
north. Their only common feeding
ground was along tlio Republican
River and its branches in Nebraska.
The Indians were well aware of tliat
fad, and hostile tribes havo lind many
a fight for that territory. It was not
until 1878 that the government put an
end to this by sending tlie Pawnees
south and tho Sioux to their northern
reservation.
Like a herd of cattle, the bison aro
always on the go, and are apt to walk
out of rifle range in a short time. In
moving, however, they always have a
leader, and the trick was to kill any
one that started to lead the others oft'.
By thus killing the leaders we could
often shoot for an hour from behind
one clump of grass, and when they
had moved from out of range tho
skinners would come up, cut the hide
in the ordinary way for skinning, tic
the animal's head to a stake, liitcli a
team of horses to the hide and jerk it
off. No ono will ever know wlat im¬
mense numbers of bisotis were killed
by these hide hunters, but to my cer¬
tain knowledge 3,000,000 hides were
shipped from the banks of tiio French¬
man River in one winter. At tho
close of that winter a man could go
along the bank of the Frenchman for
50 miles by simply jumping from the
carcass of one bison to another. Now
a few old circus animals represent the
great herds.
Tobacco.
The amount of tobacco annually
consumed in tho United States is esti¬
mated by an apparently competent au¬
thority at 310,000,000 pounds. Sev¬
enty million pounds are utilized in tho
production of domestic cigars; 222,-
000,000 pounds of chewing and smok¬
ing tobacco are consumed; 8,000,000
pounds are used iu tlie manufacture
of snuff; 6,000,000 pounds aro re¬
quired in the production of cigar¬
ettes; and 4,000,000 pounds of cigars
are imported. This would make an
average annual consumption of five
pounds for every person in tlie
country. But as not more than one-
fifth of our population use tobacco, it
follows that those who do, consume,
on an average, 25 pounds each per an¬
num. Opinions differ as to whether
this article should be designated a lux¬
ury or a necessity. In speaking of
the cost of tho tobacco habit, an ex¬
change says:
If the tobacco users of the United
States would abstain for a period of
two years from the chewing, smoking
and snuff-taking habit, and placo the
money they would spend for tobacco
in a common fund, there would be
enough money in the fund to almost
wipe out the entire national debt, aud
five years abstaining would give tiio
head of each family in tho United
States enough money to invest in an
eighty acre homestead farm in the far
Western States and Territories; or it
would give us a navy of fifty first-
class war vessels, fully equipped, and
create a fund that would man and
maintain them and the Navy Depart¬
ment for a period of at least twenty
five years.—[Price Current.
Cost of a Buffalo Head.
Ten years ago a good buffalo head
sold from $15 to $40. Tho price now
ranges from $75 to $400. There lias
not been a green buffalo head in Den¬
ver for three years. But it is expected
that Buffalo Tones’ domestic buffalo
herd iu Kansas will occasionally add a
new head to the market. Rocky
Mountain sheep are not very numer¬
ous, and the handsome head of that
animal brings from $35 to $100.
Mountain sheep are sold in pairs,
when the taxidermist has saved the
whole animal, and they sell for $350 a
pair. Elk heads sell from $35 to $300
each. Grizzly bear rugs bring from
$35 to $200 each, black bear as high as
$75. Tlie cinnamon and brown bear
are common and not so desirable, and
the best will not sell for over $50.
Armed for the Fray.
“Then, my dear, you have really
made up your mind to marry a wid¬
ower?”
“Certainly.”
“sVnd does he never talk to yon
about his first wife?”
“I should like him to try. If he
did, I should at once begin to tell him
about my three husbands in the regu¬
lar order of my acquaintance with
them.”
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Tho stomach contains 5,000,000
glands by which tho gastric juice is
secreted.
Leprosy is really increasing in parts
of India, in South Africa, and in
some of the West Indian colonies.
A Berlin photographer not only se¬
cures exposures but rapidly prints
positives by the magnesium (lash light.
It is held that the antiseptic effect of
coffee does not depend cn its caffeine,
but on tho oils developed while roast¬
ing.
The most common form of rain-
gauge consists of a copper funnel, the
area of tho mouth of which is accu¬
rately known.
The experiment of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion of tho
patient in water lias been tried with
gratifying success.
Codfish follow the ice of an iooberg
down until they reach the water under
it, which place affords them an excel¬
lent
The kangaroo lias at last been accli¬
matized in England, by simply turning
loose in the woods, and twenty-eight
or thirty native specimens of several
.
species are now to be scon in Tring
l’ark.
A now German water-pipe is mado
of glass covered with a coating of
asphalt and line gravel. The advan¬
tages claimed are resistance to ground
moisture and acids and alkalies, and
impermeability to gases.
That peculiar echinoid, the sea-ur¬
chin, bns five teeth in live jaws, ono
in each jaw, all tho livo immediately
surrounding the stomach. The jaws
havo a peculiar centralized motion, all
turning inward and downward, so that
they also act as feeders.
An Englishman who insulated his
bedstead by placing underneath each
post a broken off Lottie says lie had
not been free from rheumatism or
gout for fifteen years, and that he be¬
gan to improve immediately after tho
application of the insulators.
Home beautiful specimens of artific¬
ial malachite, well adapted for orna¬
mental work, have been produced by
Professor de Hchulten, of tho Univer¬
sity of Helsingfors. Tho process is
said to consist in evaporating a solu¬
tion of carbonate of copper in carbon¬
ate of ammonia.
A sculptor in Paris named Fred¬
erick Beer lias discovered a process
for making mavble fluid and moulding
it as metal is moulded. The new
product, called her yt, costs but little
more than plaster, and is especially
well adapted to the ornamentation of
houses and the construction of floors)
baths, etc.
The Sleeping Sickness.
Tho “sleeping sickness,” by some
considered to be a form of beri-beri,
is very prevalent among the Babwende
and other Bakongo tribes on the Congo
in Africa. Tho sufferer is at first
afflicted with a pain in the back of the
neck, which graduadly extends to the
limbs, and an increased desire to sleep
takes possession of him. This last
feeling slowly becomes stronger and
stronger, until at length he sleeps al¬
most continuously at any hour of tho
day or in any posture, or while en¬
gaged eating his midday meal he will
fall into a stupid, heavy slumber. I
have seen carriers, who were suffering
from the early stages of sleeping-sick¬
ness, who would fall asleep while
walking, and, when startled by a sud-
den shock, would slowly become aware
of their surroundings, and regard their
companions witli a dull, dazed stare.
The end of this disease is always
fatal; no cure lias yet been discovered
for it, nor do European doctors, who
have treated some cases, know tlie
causes or real nature of the malady.
Sometimes it ravages whole districts
among the Bakongo, and entire villages
have been swept away by it.
This siokneBB is prevalent throughout
the whole of the Congo basin, and is
known to different tribes by different
names. On the upper river it is called
ntolo, and the direst curse anativecan
call down on an adversary is toexpress
a wish tliat he may be “Waka ntolo”
(struck with sleep).— [New York
Ledger.
Bntterflles Imbedded in Ice.
Professor Heilprin and Mr. C. F.
Baker of the expedition sent out by
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences, have ascended the mountain
Iztaccihuati. Their measurements
show an absolute elevation of 17,150
feet. A glacier two miles in length
was found to descend the western
slope of the mountain, and is the first
glacier recorded to exist in Mexico.
On the summit the thermometer regis¬
tered twenty-eight degrees. Butter¬
flies were found imbedded in the ice
at an elevation of 15,500 feet.— [New
York Sun.
NO. 26.
The Golden Wedding.
The links of fifty rolling years,
llavo formed the golden chain,
Which now from joyous, thankful hearts
Calls forth our glad refrain—
O, chain of love, bo etrong and bright,
Which hatli all change defied,
And Btiil in blessed union bolds
The bridegroom and the bride!
The locks once dark are tinged with white,
The sight hath feebler grown,
But still through sunshine, or in shade,
Each heart lias held its own—
. O, chain of love, thy golden links,
The years could not divide,
Through all life’s changes still they’ve held
The bridegroom and the bride!
The golden bridal! Ah! how sweet
The music of Us bell,
To those whoso hearts the vows repeat,
Their lives have kept so well—
(>, chain of love, the bond that’s kept
A union true and tried,
And hinds with tenderness untold i
The bridegroom and the bride.
All joy be yours for years to come,
The best that love can give;
And when time's passing journey ends,
Then he it yours to live
Where blessings more than earth bestows,
And love beatified,
Shall welcome to the better home,
The bridegroom and the bride!
— [Detroit Free Press.
HUMOROUS.
A book that is likely to “make dome
stir”—Tho cook-book.
She—1 wonder what makes it rain?
Me—I suppose the pours of the sky
are opened.
Tho man who goes to lied so late
that he meets himself getting up in the
morning is not an early riser.
Fond mother—I wonder what baby
is thinking of! Fond father—Hois
not thinking; he is listening to hear if
his first tooth is coming.
Teacher of Political Economy—You
may mention an infant industry.
Lively Young Student—Sitting still
and sucking one’s thumbs.
Weeping Relative (of very sidk
statesman) — “Doctor, is there no
hope?” Experienced Physician—
“Only one. Wo must induce the
newspapers to put his obituary in
type.”
Mr. Fresh (a promising cornetist)—
I am almost able to play tlie cornet
with one hand. Mr. Brine (who lives
across the street)—Well, you ought to
be, so you can have the use of the
other hand for a gun to defend your¬
self with.
Fair Enthusiast—What a deer little
picture; its just too sweet for any¬
thing! Can you make out the name
of the artist, Mr. Cadmium? It
looks like “Ochre.” Cadmium (recog¬
nizing picture by a rival)—Humph!
Medi-ocrc, I guess.”
Ouk is Very Scarce.
Dry oak lumber of good quality is
at a premium, and the dealer who has
a large stock on hand is in the posses¬
sion of a bonanza which any ice-man
might envy. There is a big shortage
in the market and the shortage is be¬
coming more pronounced every day.
The oak cut last year was an averago
ono; the demand and consumption the
past year have been far above the
normal. Oak is the most popular fur¬
niture wood arid enormous quantities
of it have been used for this purpose,
tlie factories in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
alone getting away with between 80,-
000,000 and 40,000,000 feet, with all
tlie other factories in the country hard
at work in the same direction.
Hardwood finishes for house inte¬
riors have become more popular the
past year than ever before and oak is
used moie than any other material.
The demand for oak has increased
during tlie year to such an extent that
an average cut of logs will hardly^
supply the trade, hence the present
shortage. The prices have advanced
within the past three months from $16
and $18 for straight sawed oak to $24
and $26, and dealers who have a sup¬
ply on hand do not like to let go even
at the figures quoted. Further ad¬
vances are expected before the season
closes. j
The shortage in the supply and the
advanced prices largely increase the
cost of furniture, especially the cheap¬
er grades. One furniture company,
has announced an advance in prices of
ten percent, and others are preparing
to do likewise. The stringency is also
liable to be embarrassing to some of the
manufacturers, especially those who
have been carrying light siocks. It is
difficult to get good lumber even at the
advanced prices, and without the lum¬
ber the wheels can’t go round.
If the present increased demand
for oak continues oak will be as cosily
as mahogany. Last winter was open,
and logging operations were conducted
under difficulties. The hardwood log
crop was smaller than for years pastJ
The visible supply of oak for next
season’s consumption is much below
the average. A genuine famine is an¬
ticipated, with price? far up.—[Cifica-
go Herald,
